** thoroughly UNAUTHORIZED ** In this eclectic anthology of essays, former solid member Jewel Staite, "Kaylee," thinker Lyle Zynda, intercourse therapist pleasure Davidson, and famous technology fiction and delusion authors Mercedes Lackey, David Gerrold, and Lawrence Watt-Evans give a contribution to a shrewdpermanent and insightful research of the short-lived cult hit Firefly.

Ron Athey is an iconic determine within the improvement of up to date paintings and function. In his usually bloody portrayals of lifestyles, demise, difficulty, and fortitude in the course of AIDS, Athey calls into query the boundaries of creative perform. those limits allow Athey to discover in his paintings key issues together with gender, sexuality, S&M and radical intercourse, queer activism, post-punk and business tradition, tattooing and physique amendment, ritual, and faith.

This quantity brings jointly modern renowned leisure, present political matters, and medieval background and tradition to enquire the intersecting and sometimes tangled relatives among politics, aesthetics, fact and fiction, on the subject of problems with morality, id, social values, energy, and justice, either long ago and the current.

From the co-creator of the landmark sequence, the tale hundreds of thousands of lovers were ready to get their arms on for 25 lengthy years. the key historical past of dual Peaks enlarges the area of the unique sequence, putting the unexplained phenomena that spread out there right into a drastically layered, wide-ranging background, starting with the journals of Lewis and Clark and finishing with the surprising occasions that closed the finale.